We are Buying a HOUSE!

This whole house hunting extravaganza has been quite the drama. We originally submitted bid for a bank owned home on the market for one day. After resubmitting and competing with our highest bid secured this home. The bad news was upon a second visit and investigation we realized there was some serious roof damage that had previously occurred and could probably happen again. Lucky for us Brendan's parents were in town and also pointed out some other issues with the home that we really had not seen before. After talking it over we decided the best decision was to walk away and let it be a money pit for someone else. So we continued looking at houses. At this point we had seen over 65 houses and were still just not in love with any of them. This past Saturday our luck changed, we found our house. We found a gorgeous 2005 newer home in Draper in the Suncrest neighborhood. This area you have to see to believe it is incredible. Literally overlooking the whole city and tucked up in the mountains. The views are spectacular but the house is stunning. The only down side to the house is I would still have my hour commute to Ogden. I don't mind this too much since I listen to a lot of audio books and I absolutely love my job. For this house, I would do it. We put our bid in on Monday, Tuesday we received a counter offer to which we counter offered. Today they have accepted the third addendum and we will be moving by the end of June! I am so excited and thrilled about this house and location, it is a good size house with five bedrooms so start booking your Utah vacations! Love Alyssa and Brendan

Zion Angels Landing

Zion as always was gorgeous. Stunningly clear blue skies and perfect mid seventies temps. Brendan and I decided that we would hike Angels Landing to do something different this time. It is a 5 mile total hike with a huge elevation gain. The last half mile is holding on to a chain that is against the mountain. Brendan and I got freaked out because if you let go of this chain you really could die it was steep and sketchy. It was still a gorgeous and awesome hike. Here are a few pics we took from Zion and Angels Landing. Our next bike hiking, mountain biking adventure will be over Memorial day we are planning on checking out Flaming Gorge in Wyoming, should be awesome!

Graduation Video

I couldn't get the video to work but here are some more pics from his graduation, enjoy!

MBA Graduation

He finally did it! Yooooohoooooo! Schools out for ever! Two weekends back Brendan finally graduated with his MBA and also getting a GPA of a 3.5 which is awesome. It was a great weekend, Wednesday our cousin Karen from Ireland came to town, Thursday his parents got here, friday he graduated and Saturday we went down to Zion. It was a whirlwind weekend from start to finish. The graduation itself went great and I could not have been a more proud wife, he worked so hard to get into graduate school and then finished with a great GPA and a new career he loves. I am going to upload the video of him actually walking. Proud wife, now onto the next adventure...